“The Wind in the Willows” is a children's story that children and adults read with equal pleasure. Written and published at the beginning of the last century in England, it has spread around the world, translated into many languages. Readers fell in love with her heroes - the rational and kind Mole, the hospitable, reasonable Water Rat, the conceited Toad, the severe, reliable friendship Badger and other inhabitants of the River Bank and the inhospitable Wild Thicket. Their adventures, funny, and sometimes dangerous, end well only because they are all ready to come to each other's rescue....
In the collection “Sketches New and Old”, which includes short stories written at the turn of the 70s, the satirical denunciation of the glaring contradictions of American society and the ruthless and fierce competition in it continues. In a satirically sharpened, contrasting picture, the writer characterizes, in his own words, "the gap between the due and the existing." He created a whole gallery of satirical portraits of American "businessmen of the church" selling oil, cotton, speculators on the grain exchange, figures of the American Bible Society, accomplices of bankers Morgan and Dupon....
Once in the Land of Oz, where there are neither rich nor poor, no enmity or envy, and life there is just a celebration of sociability and friendliness, a misfortune happened - the Skizers declared war on the Flat-headed! Obedient to the call of duty, armed with a magic wand, the Great Sorceress Ozma, the ruler of the Land of Oz, hurries to them. Along the way, she is accompanied by a friend, Princess Dorothy, a girl from Kansas. Their life is in mortal danger, but in the Magic Land of Good Evil is always punishable. And friendly help comes on time. “Glinda from the Land of Oz” is the last...
The Dog's Story is one of the most sentimental works in world literature. You have to have a really callous heart so that your eyes do not get wet when reading this small piece. Told on behalf of the dog, this story is about the love and devotion of a defenseless animal, which the human race does not justify and does not deserve....
"Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet" is a fairy tale by an Italian writer born in Florence. Pinocchio in translation from the Tuscan dialect means "pine nut". The wooden little man is known for his nose, which is enlarged every time Pinocchio tries to lie. “The Adventures of Pinocchio. The Story of a Wooden Doll ”introduces you to Fox and the Cat, the dad of the wooden boy - Jeppetto, a talking cricket, a beautiful girl with azure hair and many other characters of this unique fairy tale, full of adventure and magic....
It is the story of a young woman who impulsively marries an idealistic but impractical writer and becomes a novelist and playwright herself. Its humor and witty dialogue quickly made it a readers' favorite and commercial success, with the first edition selling out two weeks before publication....
Sherlock Holmes gets down to business again. One after another, the Great Detective reveals the most difficult things ... And he understands that someone is behind their organization. Someone with tremendous power and influence in the underworld. Someone wishing for Sherlock to die. Someone with whom Detective will meet in faraway Switzerland, at the Reichenbach Falls... It is there that the fate of Holmes will be decided......
Guy de Maupassant is often called the master of erotic prose. But the novel “Bel Ami” (1885) goes beyond the scope of this genre. The history of the career of the ordinary seducer and playboy Georges Durois, developing in the spirit of an adventure novel, becomes a symbolic reflection of the spiritual impoverishment of the hero and society. Time passes, but readers are still interested in the image of a cynical adventurer and womanizer, a seducer of secular beauties who do not disdain anything to break out of poverty and obscurity in high society. Not possessing special talents, except the...
In Venice, in a dilapidated, dusty palazzo, lives old Miss Bordero and her niece, zealously guarding her treasure, a bundle of letters written to her in her youth by the famous poet Jeffrey Aspern, who fell in love with her. The narrator, a literary critic, enters the palace under a fictitious name, renting rooms in it. He is determined to seize Asperno's legacy at any cost ... The novella "Asperno's Letters" constantly keeps the reader in suspense, this work is considered one of the best in the work of Henry James....
The book includes short stories and tales of the famous American writer Herman Melville, who became famous for the great novel Moby Dick, or White Whale. Small prose, which became a field of bold experiments for the author, prompted critics to compare Melville with Gogol and Dostoevsky, as well as call the harbinger of creativity....
